GEC allows new sticker

Aug. 21, 2012

Written by

Brett Kelman
Pacific Daily News

Former Gov. Carl Gutierrez, who is running as a write-in for public auditor, has convinced the Guam Election Commission board to approve a new kind of voting sticker in the upcoming primary election.

The board already has said that Gutierrez's campaign is allowed to use stickers to fill the write-in slot, but Gutierrez asked to use a sticker that will eliminate the need for voters to color the write-in oval.

Previously, any voter who uses a voting sticker to cast their write-in vote also must fill in the corresponding "write-in" oval. Therefore, even if a voter places a Gutierrez sticker on the ...